Quantum effects in photosynthesis
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In photosynthesis light is absorbed by the light-harvesting antenna and within several tens of picoseconds transferred to the photosynthetic reaction center (RC) where an ultrafast charge separation is initiated. Photosynthetic purple bacteria employ a single reaction center. In contrast, in photosynthesis of plants, algae and cyanobacteria, two reaction centers, Photosystem II (PSII) and Photosystem I (PSI), operate in series. PSII uses light to extract electrons from water (to produce oxygen); PSI uses light to reduce NADP + to NADPH. The electron transfer from PSII to PSI is coupled to the build-up of a proton motive force (pmf) that is used to form ATP. NADPH and ATP are required in the Calvin-Benson cycle to produce a reduced sugar. In the following we will discuss photosynthetic charge separation and photosynthetic light-harvesting with an emphasis on the role of quantum mechanics.
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A large number of studies associated the cross peaks with couplings between exciton states, while their oscillations were assigned to electronic quantum coherence, i.e. coherent superpositions between exciton states.
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DeVault and Chance proposed the behaviour to show evidence of quantum mechanical tunnelling and laid the foundation for the concept of electron and nuclear tunnelling in biology.
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- van Grondelle, R., & Novoderezhkin, V. I.
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- Lomonosov Moscow State University (RU)
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- Procedia Chemistry
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- Elsevier BV
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- 2011
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- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Physical and Theoretical Chemistry › Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies
- Keywords
- photosynthetic reaction center, photosystem II, photosystem I, light-harvesting antenna, ultrafast charge separation, electron transfer, proton motive force, ATP production, NADPH, Calvin cycle, purple bacteria, quantum coherence
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